Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
Volume I, Book I http://books.google.com/books?id=US0bhPS4h2UC&pg=PA79 <br class="br">The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
Volume I, Book I http://books.google.com/books?id=US0bhPS4h2UC&pg=PA79 <br class="br">The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“Setting the agenda and getting one's way, however, are two very different things.”
John W. Kingdon (1940) American political scientist
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 2, Participants on the Inside of Government, p. 23
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
Larry King Live interview (2010)
Context: This is a really fascinating time because, again, we live in these two different realities. I don't think it's ever been like this. I know there's always been a — shall we say passionate — a passionate divide in American politics. But I don't think there's ever been a time when the two sides just have two different sets of reality.
I mean, if more than half the Republicans think that Obama is trying to impose Sharia law on the United States of America, that's not something that you can argue about. That's just something in their view that has to be extirpated.
Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) German-American psychologist
Source: 1930s, Patterns of aggressive behavior in experimentally created “social climates”, 1939, p. 272.
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Kittredge Gardiner, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Aphorism (1937), p. 38
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Context: Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
“In general, any differences between two groups will always be greatly accentuated at the extremes.”
John Allen Paulos book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Section 2, “Local, Social, and Business Issues” Chapter 11, “Company Charged with Ethnic Bias in Hiring” (p. 60)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)